Category: Blogging

I’m recording a radio interview tomorrow morning (Wed 21st) about politicians and blogging. I have long believed that blogging software is an ideal tool for politicians to raise their profile. I have come across a couple of good politician’s blogs but if you know of a good one, why don’t you leave a link to…

I’m not a big foodie. Don’t get me wrong, I like food but purely as a way of filling a need (my hunger)! I was at a friend’s house over the weekend. He made a great seafood chowder. He put loads of fresh seafood into it, stock, etc. and sure it tasted great but I’d…

This blog has been a little neglected in the last few days because I have been off playing around with researching Twitter. I’m not sure what Twitter is – it is like a micro-blogging tool. You can access it through IM, RSS, the web or your mobile (via SMS). Because of the SMS part you…

I’m heading to Dublin on this Saturday afternoon (March 3rd) for the Irish Blog Awards. The event starts at 6pm for sponsors and nominees but there is no food being served so I’m going to grab a bite to eat before heading to the Alexander for 6pm. Does anyone want to meetup for a quick…

Thanks to Bernie I found two new interesting blogs this morning: – the first is Karlin Lillington. Karlin is a longtime blogger who has been on a blogging sabattical (not entirely by choice) for some time now but who has just started blogging once more – welcome back Karlin. – the second is Chris Horn.…

I just took this screenshot in my WordPress dashboard and it shows 999 posts published on this blog! That means this is post number 1,000. Wow! Thanks to everyone who has come to this blog, particularly those who go to the trouble of leaving a comment. The comments are a fabulous resource and I am…

Bernie pointed out that the number of subscribers to this blog went over the 1,000 mark yesterday. He also correctly deduced that this is due to FeedBurner’s taking Google Reader’s (now published) numbers into account in its statistics. Everyone who uses FeedBurner will have seen a nice spike in their numbers yesterday as Google made…

Today is the last day of voting for the Irish Blog Awards – voting closes this afternoon at 5pm GMT. Everyone is eligible to vote. If you haven’t already voted (and if there is still time when you read this!) head on over to the voting page to cast your ballot.